The IE team at Microsoft has released the 2nd beta Internet Explorer 8. Contrary to the first beta, which was aimed at developers, this one one is aimed at normal people like you and me. The list of new features and changes is decent, all focused around three themes (marketing alert): "We focused our work around three themes: everyday browsing (the things that real people do all the time), safety (the term most people use for what we've called 'trustworthy' in previous posts), and the platform (the focus of Beta 1, how developers around the world will build the next billion web pages and the next waves of great services)." Go get it.
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Member since:2007-02-17
Web designers don't care about major, approved web standards functionality but they do care about 1 vertical pixel?
ORLY?
On what planet is this?
Member since:2005-11-10
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Member since:2005-11-02
Web designers care a *lot* about "just one pixel". It's 'little' bugs like that which drive even half-assed web developers like me crazy. What if "sometimes" when you ran a command it did almost what you asked, but not quite. Do you accept "occasionally off by one" from a calculator? I wouldn't.
It's critically important--especially on the vertical, where fixing it is harder--that things be sized precisely the way the code says it will and precisely the same way between browsers.
Member since:2005-11-16
"Safari 3.1.x and Firefox 3.0.x both fail ("nose" is still off by a few pixels compared to the reference rendering). Funny. "
"Quit trolling and let's put some pressure on Mozilla and Apple to fix their browsers so that we all can enjoy at least Acid 2 being supported by all major players. They should simply fix the problem, the same way MS is fixing IE. Don't you think that would be better?"
Wait, i can't get it. On my machine, Safari 3.1.2 passes the Acid2 perfectly, the rendered face looks exactly the same as the reference rendering, exactly the same.
Safari has passed the Acid2 test for a while now (Firefox too i presume, but i did not try), i can't believe that you come up here proud like a real microsoft fan boy telling us that IE passes the test, but not Safari (or Firefox), when in fact Safari has been passing successfully this test for three years.... Yes three years before IE, do you realize that?
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2005_04.html
I am also running Safari 4 beta on my laptop, yes of course it succeeds in Acid2, but it also get a full 100/100 in Acid3.
So it seems that you are either completely confusing things or you are trolling.....
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2005-11-10
How does that make FF or Safaric pass Acid2? It does not.
By the way, not many developers/designers really care about SVG today. In the future, we may, but today - not really.
On the other hand, Acid 2 matters today more than ever.
Quit trolling and let's put some pressure on Mozilla and Apple to fix their browsers so that we all can enjoy at least Acid 2 being supported by all major players. They should simply fix the problem, the same way MS is fixing IE. Don't you think that would be better?